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RAI Film Festival 2017. Unity : dress-scapes of Accra / a film by Mara Lin Visser.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fashion designers--Ghana--Accra.
- Fashion designers.
- Clothing and dress--Ghana--Accra.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing trade--Ghana--Accra.
- Clothing trade.
- Tailoring--Ghana--Accra.
- Tailoring.
- Accra (Ghana).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (37 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity and hybridity of tailor-made fashion in the city, the variety of ways in which African clothing may be used and the cultural expression that is implicit in the wearing of African printed fabrics. The process of sewing a dress involves the marriage not only of fabric and design, and of tradition and creativity, but also of husband and wife.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 1003373829
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